Plenty of news tidbits

Awesome :-)

Excited for the race events. :D (hopefully a lot of solo ones or maybe a week long one or something)

Great to hear, glad to see that the player base is surging, I knew it would. I have been recommending it to everyone I know who games and all my old D2 buddies! POE for an 'indie' title is perhaps one of the best ARPGS to grace the scene since the Diablo series(pre d3 of course). It deserves to thrive and grow into the exceptional game it is destined to be; backed by the incredible development you guys provide and your exceptional work ethic and true passion for the game I can see POE becoming a HUGE success.

Oooh plenty of nice news tidbits, and we shall see what is in store with the events :)

*Radiates positivity at monitor*

I hope PoE community will grow to an insane size, love the game.
Good to know that this will be final wipe ever, but in fact i think wipes arent that bad, but i have to think :p

The population is back to a decent size and that is very nice. It was a ghost town mid-November. It will probably explode once open beta comes with all the hype this game has been getting lately.

Also that kiwi pic is just pure awesome.

I was amazed and very excited to see PoE climb the ranks on twitch during that last race. The more publicity the better!

That photo of the kiwi is adorable. I never knew much about them, or that their populations were under threat, until I came here. I'll definitely be donating after the holiday season.

Imbalanxd stole my alpha access
I'm wondering, as you're really emphasizing the forum participation, do you also check the activity and progress ingame/in races ?
I believe that for testing it's quite important to have a dedicated amount of time